He and She (album)

He and She is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that was released in 2009. The album reached a peak of number 6 on the Top Jazz Albums chart of Billboard magazine.[1]

He and She
Studio album by Wynton Marsalis
Released	March 24, 2009
Recorded	August 24 – 25, 2007
Genre	Jazz
Length	75:07
Label	Blue Note
Wynton Marsalis chronology
Two Men with the Blues (2008) He and She (2009) Christmas Jazz Jam (2009)

Music

A reviewer at commented Down Beat that "Using the vernacular of Langston Hughes, but writing in a formal, Olympian style inspired by Irish national poet William Butler Yeats, Marsalis alternates between words and music, reciting a stanza then dramatizing its theme with his quintet. At the end, he strings all the stanzas together, declaiming his long poem about the trials of love in a satisfying finale."[2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Wynton Marsalis.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Poem"	0:12
2.	"School Boy"	6:48
3.	"Poem"	0:27
4.	"The Sun and the Moon"	6:31
5.	"Poem"	0:10
6.	"Sassy"	5:17
7.	"Poem"	0:16
8.	"Fears"	3:31
9.	"Poem"	0:16
10.	"The Razor Rim"	12:05
11.	"Poem"	1:01
12.	"Zero"	2:17
13.	"Poem"	0:36
14.	"First Crush"	1:52
15.	"First Slow Dance"	4:37
16.	"First Kiss"	3:21
17.	"First Time"	4:47
18.	"Poem"	1:06
19.	"Girls!"	5:46
20.	"Poem"	0:59
21.	"A Train, a Banjo, and a Chicken Wing"	8:12
22.	"He and She"	5:00

Personnel

• Wynton Marsalis – trumpet
• Walter Blanding – tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet
• Dan Nimmer – piano
• Carlos Henriquez – bass
• Ali Jackson – drums

References

1. "Wynton Marsalis | Awards". AllMusic. 1961-10-18. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
2. de Barros, Paul (June 2009) "Wynton Marsalis – He and She". Down Beat. p. 57.